The branch of medicine concerned with using diet and nutrition as a treatment for disease and the restoration of health.
From 'diet' (food regimen) + Greek 'therapeia' (healing, treatment) + '-tics' (the practice of). A compound term that developed in medical terminology during the 19th-20th centuries.
Dietotherapeutics is experiencing a renaissance as modern science validates what ancient physicians always knew—that many chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and obesity can be treated or prevented primarily through dietary changes rather than just medication.
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